Alasdair Beckett-King
@misterabk.bsky.social
Award-winning poltergeist and comedian | Writer of the Montgomery Bonbon mysteries | Pronouns like a butler coughing: he/him | linktr.ee/misterabk
UK TOUR 2026 (Extended!): www.mickperrin.com/tours/king-of-crumbs
UK TOUR 2026 (Extended!): www.mickperrin.com/tours/king-of-crumbs
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👑ALERT! ALERT!👑 I've just added extra UK tour dates for my my ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ show King of Crumbs. From Sept-Nov 2026 I'll be coming to NEW places with the SAME jokes.
Hop on my autumnal leg! www.mickperrin.com/tours/king-of-crumbs
Hop on my autumnal leg! www.mickperrin.com/tours/king-of-crumbs
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2 weeks from now, you could be in London connecting with narrative and adventure game fans, developers, and industry professionals at #AdvX26!
Less than 10% of tickets left. Make your plans for a great weekend of your favorite games and game devs now: www.tickettailor.com/events/adven...
Less than 10% of tickets left. Make your plans for a great weekend of your favorite games and game devs now: www.tickettailor.com/events/adven...
October 23, 2026 at 9:00 AM
2 weeks from now, you could be in London connecting with narrative and adventure game fans, developers, and industry professionals at #AdvX26!
Less than 10% of tickets left. Make your plans for a great weekend of your favorite games and game devs now: www.tickettailor.com/events/adven...
Less than 10% of tickets left. Make your plans for a great weekend of your favorite games and game devs now: www.tickettailor.com/events/adven...
When I was a kid, I constantly daydreamed about doing animation, and I was bitterly envious of kids on TV doing rubbish animations with 8mm film cameras. And now it's so easy and cheap for young people to have a go. Not everyone has a smartphone or a laptop, but it's SO much more accessible now.
Social media loves talking about how everything is getting worse. But what’s something that you’ve seen get _better_ in your lifetime?
October 23, 2026 at 10:26 PM
When I was a kid, I constantly daydreamed about doing animation, and I was bitterly envious of kids on TV doing rubbish animations with 8mm film cameras. And now it's so easy and cheap for young people to have a go. Not everyone has a smartphone or a laptop, but it's SO much more accessible now.
In response to changing viewing habits, the BBC announces that it will continue making television, but not show it to anyone.
October 23, 2026 at 3:20 PM
In response to changing viewing habits, the BBC announces that it will continue making television, but not show it to anyone.
Lots of lovely feedback, but there's one reference to Bride of Frankenstein (and the Incredible Hulk and Murder, She Wrote) that no one has spotted yet...
October 23, 2026 at 11:38 AM
Lots of lovely feedback, but there's one reference to Bride of Frankenstein (and the Incredible Hulk and Murder, She Wrote) that no one has spotted yet...
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Look at that. I'm so deeply in-character that their screams make different mouth-shapes. Wow. Is there an acting award for that?
October 22, 2026 at 6:05 PM
Look at that. I'm so deeply in-character that their screams make different mouth-shapes. Wow. Is there an acting award for that?
Now with a thumbnail! My humble Halloween sketch is on YouTube. Please hit like, mash subscribe and maul that bell:
October 22, 2026 at 5:55 PM
Now with a thumbnail! My humble Halloween sketch is on YouTube. Please hit like, mash subscribe and maul that bell:
The name Sudowrite shows how well they know their target users. How many working writers will get a reference to the Unix command versus how many will be repulsed and offended by the idea of pseudo-writing?
‘Sudowrite, the “best AI for novel writing”, promises to maintain your ‘unique voice’. Whether or not you have a unique voice, it will give you scene directions and alternative options for the plot, and act as your editor.’
Alfred Nunney on AI and books, from the blog.
www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/oc...
Alfred Nunney on AI and books, from the blog.
www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/oc...
Alfred Nunney | Write a Novel in Thirty Days
My boss at the bookshop has said he would sell AI novels if there were clear demand and clear labelling. We almost...
www.lrb.co.uk
October 22, 2026 at 11:45 AM
The name Sudowrite shows how well they know their target users. How many working writers will get a reference to the Unix command versus how many will be repulsed and offended by the idea of pseudo-writing?
Every gothic horror:
October 22, 2026 at 10:28 AM
Every gothic horror:
They call him "Spooky" Mulder. You wouldn't like him, he's very good-looking and mysterious.
October 22, 2026 at 9:38 AM
They call him "Spooky" Mulder. You wouldn't like him, he's very good-looking and mysterious.
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they are lightweights. everybody online has been yelled at by a teenager. didn't turn the rest of us into nazis
October 21, 2026 at 11:09 PM
they are lightweights. everybody online has been yelled at by a teenager. didn't turn the rest of us into nazis
It is NOT easy to get into a good Almshouse these days.
October 21, 2026 at 3:56 PM
It is NOT easy to get into a good Almshouse these days.
I haven't made a clip from our Goosebumps episode yet, so please enjoy me and @eleanormorton.bsky.social listening to the much-missed Tim Curry singing the Worst Song from the Worst Witch:
More episodes: linktr.ee/readthat
More episodes: linktr.ee/readthat
Is this the greatest music video ever? @eleanormorton.bsky.social and I discover what might be the sexiest/spookiest performance of Tim Curry's career in The Worst Witch (1986). linktr.ee/readthat
October 21, 2026 at 2:06 PM
I haven't made a clip from our Goosebumps episode yet, so please enjoy me and @eleanormorton.bsky.social listening to the much-missed Tim Curry singing the Worst Song from the Worst Witch:
More episodes: linktr.ee/readthat
More episodes: linktr.ee/readthat
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If closing surely the least expensive radio channel the BBC has (run by a tiny number of people, broadcasting the work of mainly dead people), bothers you, then why not sign this petition you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/sa...
October 21, 2026 at 9:15 AM
If closing surely the least expensive radio channel the BBC has (run by a tiny number of people, broadcasting the work of mainly dead people), bothers you, then why not sign this petition you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/sa...
We did a whole episode about Goosebumps: The Haunted Mask and forgot to talk about the unauthorised drag parody Goosehumps. If you can forgive this oversight, the Halloween episode of Eleanor & Alasdair Read That is out now!
Subscribe! linktr.ee/readthat
@eleanormorton.bsky.social
Subscribe! linktr.ee/readthat
@eleanormorton.bsky.social
October 21, 2026 at 9:05 AM
We did a whole episode about Goosebumps: The Haunted Mask and forgot to talk about the unauthorised drag parody Goosehumps. If you can forgive this oversight, the Halloween episode of Eleanor & Alasdair Read That is out now!
Subscribe! linktr.ee/readthat
@eleanormorton.bsky.social
Subscribe! linktr.ee/readthat
@eleanormorton.bsky.social
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Druid Loving This Cloak Weather https://theonion.com/druid-loving-this-cloak-weather/
October 20, 2026 at 3:00 PM
Druid Loving This Cloak Weather https://theonion.com/druid-loving-this-cloak-weather/
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I was watching, in New Zealand [on YouTube] this evening.
I had to pause the show to listen to my dearly beloved wife.
Very disturbing.
I had to pause the show to listen to my dearly beloved wife.
Very disturbing.
October 19, 2026 at 10:33 AM
I was watching, in New Zealand [on YouTube] this evening.
I had to pause the show to listen to my dearly beloved wife.
Very disturbing.
I had to pause the show to listen to my dearly beloved wife.
Very disturbing.
This month's episode of @eleanormorton.bsky.social & Alasdair Read That will be a wee bit later than usual, because we want it to be as scary as possible for Halloween (which is actually Scottish, apparently).
Subscribe to the pod to hear it as soon as I finish the edit...
linktr.ee/readthat
Subscribe to the pod to hear it as soon as I finish the edit...
linktr.ee/readthat
October 18, 2026 at 10:51 PM
This month's episode of @eleanormorton.bsky.social & Alasdair Read That will be a wee bit later than usual, because we want it to be as scary as possible for Halloween (which is actually Scottish, apparently).
Subscribe to the pod to hear it as soon as I finish the edit...
linktr.ee/readthat
Subscribe to the pod to hear it as soon as I finish the edit...
linktr.ee/readthat
The make-up artists on Mock the Week have taken decades off me. I don't look a day over 110.
Join me and a lovely panel tonight at 9pm on tlc!
Join me and a lovely panel tonight at 9pm on tlc!
October 18, 2026 at 10:53 AM
The make-up artists on Mock the Week have taken decades off me. I don't look a day over 110.
Join me and a lovely panel tonight at 9pm on tlc!
Join me and a lovely panel tonight at 9pm on tlc!
I saw people on Kickstarter asking for their money back from a game that raised about £25,000 11 YEARS AGO and is still in development. Your money is gone! Kickstarter isn't a pre-order system. Leave them alone!
October 17, 2026 at 4:22 PM
I saw people on Kickstarter asking for their money back from a game that raised about £25,000 11 YEARS AGO and is still in development. Your money is gone! Kickstarter isn't a pre-order system. Leave them alone!
An Ofcom-approved update to the Englishmen, Irishman, Scotsman joke.
"Jew" and "Nazi" in the same column with "Sheep shagger"...
Just in case you thought it was just LGBT stuff, Ofcom has also deemed calling someone a Nazi approximately as offensive as calling them a "Chinaman", "Gippo" or "Honky".
October 16, 2026 at 12:37 PM
An Ofcom-approved update to the Englishmen, Irishman, Scotsman joke.
Here's a writing tip: ask a trusted friend to read the first draft of something before sharing it with the wider world.
October 15, 2026 at 3:22 PM
Here's a writing tip: ask a trusted friend to read the first draft of something before sharing it with the wider world.
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Hey, authors, illustrators, poets, etc in the UK and Ireland! I’ve put together a statement in support of Sally Rooney with the help of others. Message me if you’d like to sign?
October 15, 2026 at 11:56 AM
Hey, authors, illustrators, poets, etc in the UK and Ireland! I’ve put together a statement in support of Sally Rooney with the help of others. Message me if you’d like to sign?
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The Heir of the Dog has a *brilliant* cast, featuring the voices of @misterhowlett.bsky.social, @shaunmendum.bsky.social, @sallybeaumont.bsky.social, @pabosher.com, @misterabk.bsky.social, @roguespirit.bsky.social and more. Spot any of your favourite #voiceover actors here? #WishlistWednesday
October 14, 2026 at 8:03 PM
The Heir of the Dog has a *brilliant* cast, featuring the voices of @misterhowlett.bsky.social, @shaunmendum.bsky.social, @sallybeaumont.bsky.social, @pabosher.com, @misterabk.bsky.social, @roguespirit.bsky.social and more. Spot any of your favourite #voiceover actors here? #WishlistWednesday
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That this bot, which posts random stills and clips from the thousands of hours of VHS transfers on archive.org, landed on *this specific frame* feels like finding the monkey at the typewriter that managed to write Hamlet.
October 14, 2026 at 1:38 PM
That this bot, which posts random stills and clips from the thousands of hours of VHS transfers on archive.org, landed on *this specific frame* feels like finding the monkey at the typewriter that managed to write Hamlet.
Those boffins have invented a NEW Milton, so naturally it had to be my next stop on the tour (Oct 15th) and then Farnham on the 21st!
www.mickperrin.com/tours/king-of-crumbs/
www.mickperrin.com/tours/king-of-crumbs/
October 14, 2026 at 8:57 AM
Those boffins have invented a NEW Milton, so naturally it had to be my next stop on the tour (Oct 15th) and then Farnham on the 21st!
www.mickperrin.com/tours/king-of-crumbs/
www.mickperrin.com/tours/king-of-crumbs/